China has claimed the attention of an increasing number of people worldwide with its economic takeoff since it opened to the outside world three decades ago, and especially in the past few years. All those who have been to the country marvel at the country's...
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This book is a collection of memoirs by a group of Canadian teachers or specialists in education to China. They are or used to be invited by Bond International College, or recommended by Canada China Education Council, to work at colleges and universities, schools,...
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Featuring the distinctive heights of Chinese culture, the authors share with you their insights into the concepts and passions of the Chinese nation over the past 5,000 years. On reading through this historical range of remarkable creativity and flair for innovation,...
A fascinating examination of contemporary Chinese culture, The Chinese Mind offers an informative, accessible look at the values, attitudes and behavior patterns of modern China—and their roots in the history of this ancient nation. This excellent overview of Chinese...
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Talking about China was one of the author's first books about China, where she have now lived for almost 17 years. Very popular especially among westerners who live in China, the booklet was ready for its third reprint when the publisher decided to produce a...
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This book contains the touching life stories of 11 young Chinese people who have struggled to realize their dreams, experienced success and failure, learned lessons and occasionally felt regret. The stories are presented without embellishment and in their original...
Through the eyes of a Japanese journalist living in Beijing, the book contains 60 articles from the columns and essays that the author wrote between 2005 and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for Japanese magazines, China's Japanese language supplements, and her...
Many of the 50,000 Chinese characters in use today can be traced back to ancient, inscribed oracle bones and bronzes. Drawing on archeological finds of recent decades, Lindqvist, a Swedish scholar who studied Chinese writing in Beijing, tells the fascinating...
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An impressive and comprehensive survey of mainland China's geography, political structure, military establishment, economics, and recent history. Invaluable and indispensable reading for students of contemporary Chinese culture and society, Understanding China is an...
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This book explores the world of "Things Chinese". The useful guide offers a survey of common Chinese objects from the abacus to bank notes, from train tickets to hot water bottles, from Mahjong to Liberation Shoes, from Moon Cakes to Erguotuo, the Chinese strong...
Chinese are a nation good at using colors. The richness of colors serves as a deposit of the sentiments and wisdom of the Chinese people and meanwhile it carries the unique cultural memories of the Chinese. It has the function of a key to a special door of the...
Fascinating first-person accounts of twenty-three "expats" from around the globe, Finland to Liberia, Egypt to Japan, who explain what it is about their life and work in China that has had them happily calling it home from as one to as many as twenty-five years...